<p>It certainly is. The undergrad opportunities for research are matchless.</p>
<p>For some Ronald Reagan-style "anecdotal evidence" read this Time Magazne story about what a '99 Harvard grad is doing with his BME degree!</p>
<p>Opportunities for research are everywhere, Byerly, both at large public schools and smaller private ones. Harvard doesn't have any more research than Yale does, and less than its competitor down the road!</p>
<p>This is not an area where you know what you're talking about, zepher.</p>
<p>Because by citing articles from the Harvard site, you do, "Byerley"?</p>
<p>HOSPITALS =/= Biomedical engineering.
Trust me, you don't know what you are talking about Byerly. Having affiliated hospitals does not equate into having good biomedical engineering as the latter is often a product more from an engineering program. Hospital research can vary, no doubt, but the bulk is clinical and basic science research. When it comes to BME, JHU, Duke, and tech schools are unmatched (Stanford too). Its just a function of having "tech support" as your original link which cited Harvard's need for MIT in order to garner some sort of respectable program.</p>
<p>For more info on Yale's program, which by the way, splintered off of engineering in 2003 (I think it was a concentration within engineering) so its relatively young, see the website <a href="http://www.eng.yale.edu/content/DPBiomedicalEngineering.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.eng.yale.edu/content/DPBiomedicalEngineering.asp</a>
It appears the program is split into three directions, biomechanical, bioimaging and biomolecular.</p>
<p>anybody care to resolve this urination contest with the u.s. news BME rankings?</p>
<p>Odd, bulldog, that you would dismiss the joint Harvard/MIT program simply because it is ... well .. a joint Harvard/MIT program. That doesn't mean it isn't extraordinary and an opportunity for those interested in this field - even as undergraduates - to engage in meaningful and exciting research. Why does one "relatively young" program get the benefit of the doubt, but another not?</p>
<p>And before scottie pees on anybody, I'd like to ask this: did anyone ever notice, his opinions seem to align perfectly with Princeton's institutional interests and appearances in comparisons here?</p>
<p>not true: i strongly oppose princeton's continued use of ED, for one, as well as its current crackdown on eating clubs. i've voiced these sentiments in several threads. in any event, this thread has nothing to do with princeton, which doesn't have a BME program. now, about those rankings ... i know you either subscribed for the rankings or bought them, so how about it?</p>
<p>I thought this thread was about Yale. </p>
<p>Byerly, Harvard should have enough "resources" to carry out BME research on its own. Doing it with MIT just adds bureaucracy and inefficiency.</p>
<p>The rankings, I am sure, will show Harvard nowhere near Yale, or Princeton, much less Stanford.</p>
<p>Actually, to be entirely honest, we all get pwn'ed on this one.</p>
<p>Stanford comes in at #14, HYP nowhere to be seen.</p>
<p>I feel that the moderators, if they care about CC, need to start cracking down on these troll wars. It turns alot of people off - myself, as at least one - and I doubt it lends itself well to people like the OP actually looking for solid information.</p>
<p>Those USNWR lists really have no bearing on the quality of undergraduate programs.</p>